Tom Sharpe was born in 1928. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951 where he was a social worker, and a teacher in Natal. From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.
Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. He is the not-very acute scion of a successful family - that is, until Timo... Read More
This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyer... Read More
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly... Read More
Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he ... Read More
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physi... Read More
A little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary ag Read More...